A True Winner On Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea Abstract: Ernest Hemingway, a famous American writer, is considered as one of the most important and outstanding writers of the 20th century in the world. ... Key words: Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, true winner Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) is regarded as a 20th century's important and outstanding writer in the world. ... The main hero in The Old Man and the Sea, which is a well-know book, shows fully Hemingway's psychological struggle in time of difficulty. ... Hopefully, the old man sails silently on the black se...

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Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. ... After Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he became acquainted with Ernest Hemingway while in Paris. ... In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize with his work, The Old Man and the Sea. ... Then in 1961, Ernest Hemingway unfortunately died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds and a literary icon was lost forever (Ernest Hemingway Biography). ... He was a dedicated man to his craft and should have gotten the kind of recognition that Hemingway did while he was alive. ...

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Ernest Hemingway: 1950 - Death Ernest Hemingway was a famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. ... The Old Man and the Sea, which was published in, 1952, this was the novel that got him his Pulitzer Prize. ... It was about an old man and a fish, The Old Man and the Sea, it was published in 1952, Hemingway wanted to make a good impression after the last novel was such a failure. ... Hemingway's longtime friend and boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, was said to be the inspiration for the main character in "The Old Man and the Sea" (Hemingway, the fall, 1). He wins ...

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Composition 1023 "Ernest Hemingway: How His Novels Tell of His Real Life Story" Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ... These men, Jake Barnes, Fredric Henry, and ...

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Ernest Hemingway In the sixty two years of Ernest Hemingway's life he produced a literary reputation that went unmatched in the twentieth century. He was looked at from many different respects from writers and critics alike: "an old wise man, a brilliant stylist, a "culture hero," a fraud and a phony, an anti-intellectual, a courageous man who took chances with the violent world around him, a drinker with a metal stomach, a fun loving sportsman, and a strange primitive man." ... He continued to say, The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had ever...

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Ernest Miller Hemingway is a well-known American author who wrote in the twentieth century. He has written several novels such as, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway is an American author who has penned several novels and short stories; one of his works is The Sun Also Rises. ... Ernest Hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors in his time. ... Ernest Hemingway has always been one who is big on the symbolism of night as being bad. ...

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The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. ... I found Ernest Hemingway writing fascinating. ... The specific novel I read by him was The Old Man & The Sea it was a fascinating novel. Everything about The Old Man & The Sea is classically simple. ... Throughout the novel, Hemingway depicts the old man as a Christ figure. ...

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Santiago as a Christ Figure On its surface, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has been 84 days without a catch; Manolin, the young man who loves him; and Santiago's tremendous struggle with a gigantic marlin. ... Soon sharks appear, and the old man breaks his knife after he kills just a few. ... Although Hemingway himself said this Pulitzer-prize-winning novella is about a real man and a real fish, the book can also be read as a fable or allegory, a symbolic narrative with deeper, spiritual meanings. ... Teaching "...

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His influence has been considerable on such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and Robert Ruark. As for "The Sea Wolf", none of this author's stories of wild out-of-door life has ever equalled the popularity of this romance of the seas. ... According to Jack, most of the events in the book were drawn from his own experience aboard the Sophie Sutherland, but actually they were more from the "sea yarns" related either by some of the old seafarers who were his shipmates or by the newspaper accounts of Captain Alexander McLean, who was the prototype for Wolf Larsen." ... Humphr...

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Both Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea and Singh from The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship overcome life challenges with passion and drive. ... His experiences described in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway show his passion towards his lifestyle as a fisherman and his motivation to bring in a catch, no matter the size. ... By the third day of this strenuous trek across the water, the old man is getting extremely tired of fighting the strong marlin. ... In both The Old Man and the Sea and The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, passion and determination bring the main characters to overco...

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The Great DiMaggio is a recurring theme and symbol throughout "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway. ... Santiago sees what DiMaggio has gone through and sees the ideal man, the man in which Santiago was to model. ... Any man could do it. ... His sword was as long as a baseball bat and tapered like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then re-entered it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out" (63). ... Santiago is not a religious man, but it is hard not to see the blatant religi...

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